Aerial videos

I wanted to contribute to the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the D-Day and pay tribute to the soldiers who were there and  especially to those who lost their lives. The best way I could do so was to prepare a video which shows aerial views of the disembarkation beaches. I hope you will like it and  it will give you a better understanding of the D-Day situation. more

In July 1943 the U.S. and British bombers started the operation Ghomorrah the objective of which was to inflict as much damage as possible on industrial, military as well as civilan targets in Hamburg. The operation lasted for a week and it represented the largest bombing raid ever at that time. The U.S. aircraft carried out their task during the day and the British ones during the night. I wanted to get a better feel for how it could look like during the bombing 70 years ago so I flew over the centre of Hamburg in a similar way the bombers must have done. Since I had some time left you can also see some interesting footage of other places related to WWII – Bremen, Peenemunde and the island of Helgoland. more

Video of a flight in a Dynamic WT9 sport aircraft from Pribram, Czech Republic across the Arctice circle - glaciers, fjords, mountains and the weather filmed by an outside camera attached to the aircraft. Photos taken during this and other flights can be found here. Mored details concerning this journey can also be found here. more

I flew to Croatia to film its coast in June 2013. This was the first time that I used an outside camera for taking  video as well as photographs in flight. The objective of the whole journey was to document the journey of the milion or so Czech tourists flocking to Croatia every Summer. Photographs taken during the journey can be found in the photo section of this web. The three articles describing the journey are also shown on this web in the section "Articles". more

Mastering a flight in a circuit around an airport is the basic part of a pilot training. Taking off correctly, climbing at the right speed, setting the engine RPM at the right value, managing the flaps and undercarriage, leveling off at the correct altitude, maintaining the prescribed speed and altitude throughout the circle, carrying out all the prescribed checks, making the turns at the apropriate positions, communicating correctly with the tower, descending at the right speed, rate and direction, landing at a correct speed and spot, etc. etc., all this shows the level of proficiency of any pilot. It is good to repeat the routine whenever there is an opportunity. Here I did just that in a Cessna C 172 at the airport of Giddings, Texas. more